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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"'The Owl'"”.
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Righteous, Chrillis, My Mimi, and the Owl
<p>The following dissertation consists of a manuscript of poems and a critical essay. Both sections focus on part of my family’s history – how one branch, the Hairstons, owned over 10,000 slaves and 45 plantations in antebellum Virginia and North Carolina and how this legacy has effected its …
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Old French borrowings in "The Owl and the Nightingale"
Old French Borrowings in "The Owl and the Nightingale" ascertains the quantity and nature of Old French words present in this thirteenth-century Middle English poem. Patterns of borrowing, whether source-based or subject-based, are identified and problematic words, such as cognates, are …
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On the perceptual identity of depth vision in the owl
The key element to testing stereopsis in animals is the stereoscopic displaying of computer generated images that contain no monocular cues, even though an animal might try various strategies, such as closing one eye or making rapid head movements to obtain parallax information. A display devoid of …
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The Prof versus the Owl: faculty attitudes towards intercollegiate athletics at Rowan University
… used to collect demographic information about the subjects including age, gender, and academic discipline plus data focused on five factor groupings pertaining to the student-athlete, financing for athletics, athletic governance/eligibility, athletics on campus and general athletics issues. …
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As the owl discreet: Essay towards a conversation and Carly's Dance a novel
This thesis comprises a novel entitled Carly's Dance and an essay entitled As the Owl Discreet. Although separate works, a line runs through them that might be described as an urge to connect; each work, although self-contained, is concerned with the co-existence of opposites, or more precisely, …
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Being non-binary on Japanese Disney Channel: An analysis of the gendered language used in The Owl House
… an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND FACIES ANALYSES OF THE OWL MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, FORT HOOD MILITARY INSTALLATION, BELL AND CORYELL COUNTIES, TEXAS
<p>The Owl Mountain Province is a plateaued, karst landscape located in the eastern section of the Fort Hood Military Installation and is characterized by Lower Cretaceous Fredericksburg Group carbonates. The topography is capped by thick sequences of the Edwards limestone; steep scarps and incised …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF HYDROGEOLOGIC, STRATIGRAPHIC, AND STRUCTURAL CONTROLS ON ACER GRANDIDENTATUM COMMUNITIES IN A KARST LANDSCAPE, OWL MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, FORT HOOD MILITARY INSTALLATION, TEXAS
<p>The Owl Mountain Province is located within the Fort Hood Military Installation, an approximately 880 km2 installation established in the 1940s in Bell and Coryell counties, Texas, which has undergone extensive land use changes associated with military training, maintaining much of the …
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Perceptions and experiences of selected participants engaging with a digitally curated environmental Outsider Art collection
This study uses the Owl House in Nieu Bethesda as an exemplar for interrogating the possibilities of digital curation in South Africa. It draws on a conceptual framework encompassing the digital humanities, museology, Baudrillard's notion of simulation, as well as contemporary research and similar …
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The Iconographic Owl through the Eyes of American Artists: From Native Americans to Joseph Cornell
<p>The owl has been a symbol for the Americas, as well as the rest of the world since people could write. It is a symbol with many meanings to Native Americans, from guardian to an omen of approaching death; the owl’s presence could be both a blessing and a curse. As western society spread American …
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A curriculum model for an open space rural kindergarten
The purpose of this study was to develop and implement a kindergarten program that would acquaint children with activities and organizational patterns used in an open-classroom first grade. To accomplish such a program, the Oh We Learn (OWL) kindergarten curriculum model, which utilizes free-choice …
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Understanding Behavior and Nest Box Usage in Three Species of Owl Monkeys: Azara's Owl Monkey (Aotus azarai), Spix's Owl Monkey (A. Vociferans) and Nancy's Owl Monkey (A. Nancymaae)
The use of tree holes and nest building behavior is uncommon among most primate species. In research facilities that house species requiring nesting sites, such as those that use tree holes in the wild, providing nest boxes is crucial to their psychological well-being. The goal of this study was to …
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Olfactory Communication, Mate Choice, And Reproduction In A Pair-Bonded Primate (aotus Spp.)
… less developed sense of smell) when compared to other mammals, yet it is becoming increasingly clear that olfaction is an important sense involved in communication in numerous primate taxa, including humans. Still, compared to other social and mating systems, little is known about olfactory …
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Understanding Behavior and Nest Box Usage in Three Species of Owl Monkeys: Azara's Owl Monkey (Aotus Azarai), Spix's Owl Monkey (A. Vociferans) and Nancy's Owl Monkey (A. Nancymaae)
The use of tree holes and nest building behavior is uncommon among most primate species. In research facilities that house species requiring nesting sites, such as those that use tree holes in the wild, providing nest boxes is crucial to their psychological well-being. The goal of this study was to …
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Processing of auditory signals in the forebrain of the Barn Owl : neural mechanisms of across-frequency integration
… in most animals including humans. Due to the finite propagation velocity of sound and the different path lengths to the two ears, ITDs change with the azimuth of a sound source. Binaural comparison of phase locked spikes is performed in neurons of the auditory brainstem. On this first …
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A theory for the time dependent yielding and creep of clay
The purpose of this study was to develop a theory for clay deformation that models the behavior represented by Bjerrum's time lines (Bjerrum (1961). The theory models time-dependent compression (secondary compression) and the "aging" effect, or increase in preconsolidation pressure with time under …
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A Novel Naturalistic Paradigm to Study Aerial Predator-Induced Fear
Whether an animal is carnivorous or herbivorous, the need to exploit any foraging advantage while mitigating all risks is a major evolutionary pressure. The rat, although a small prey animal, has been able to employ these behaviors to adapt in nearly any environment and become the second most …
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A model for predicting bacteria concentrations in runoff from agricultural lands
… from livestock manure can contaminate the food and water supplies of both animals and humans. Planning and design of animal waste best management practices (BMPs) thus becomes more important as livestock populations become more concentrated. A computer model is proposed to predict the …
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Representation of binaural masking level difference in the inferior colliculus of the barn owl (tyto alba)
… for animals and humans and crucial for barn owls. In natural environments, the spatial separation of signal and interfering noise improves detectability of the signal. In psychoacoustics experiments this is achieved by changing the spatial attributes of the sound, for example by shifting the …
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